Distance Learning Courses for Home Study

There is always the Catch 22 situation. You know that you want to change career but you also know that you need to carry on working in your present job to bring in a salary. In an industry such as financial advice, you must have the relevant qualifications or you probably won't make even to interview stage. What can you do? Home Study.

The ability to Study at home has many different benefits. Primarily, it allows you to carry on at your present occupation whilst working towards your change of career. In addition, you can work at your pace, there may be times when it simply not practical to study; with Home Study you can learn at the pace and times that are convenient to you.

How does Home Study work?

The Home Study course is modelled on our highly successful residential training course. You are sent our Making Sense of Money guide, essentially this is the IFS CeFA 1 book condensed and in English. Throughout the guide, we have highlighted the key areas to become familiar and learn. On computer disc we then have 9 lessons which correspond to a days training on the residential course, as you will not be present in the classroom, the presentations are more fully explained in the slides. At the end of every day's session there are questions to help ensure that you have fully grasped what has been covered within your home learning. One of the advantages of our Home Study courses, is that although we have put them as day lessons, you can view them at your own pace, breaking and coming back to them at leisure.

Once you have completed each part of the IFS learning course, CeFA 1, 2, 3 & 4, you then use our interactive CD which have 14 indicative IFS papers. Indicative means that many of these questions have been used in actual exams in the past and could well again. The CD allows you to practice the exams exactly as they are in the Pearson Vue centres where you take the test.

Throughout your study period and for an unlimited period, you have access via email to our self study tutors. It might be that there is one area that you find particularly challenging or when doing the indicative exams you simply can not see where the answer is coming from. Contacting us via email means that we can give clear guidance in to these areas. Often it is much easier to see a solution than grapple over a telephone with difficult concepts.

To help with the distance learning studies, we provide a copy of all the slides, allowing you to take your own notes as you progress through the course and a set of revision notes to act as aide memoirs just before taking the exams.

The HomeStudy course is based on our highly successful class based course and comprises of :

• "Making Sense of Money" guide, essentially the IFS manual condensed and in english. This is useful as pre course reading, guide for further information during the course and as revision notes.
• A series of 9 lessons on CD with expanded notes, this allows you to take the course at a pace that suits you.
• You also receive a hard copy manual containing revision questions for use after every lesson, plus a set of "crib notes" which are very useful for revision purposes.
• An interactive CD containing 13 complete indicative exams. These are set out in exactly the same format as you will take the actual exams, thereby allowing you to practice in "real test" conditions.
• Our HomeStudy CeFA course covers all 4 exam modules, CeFA 1 ,2, 3 & 4 and is priced at £175, or £275 for the more popular option which includes unlimited e mail support.